a few words
"Art is my knife. My weapon to confront, protest and revolt. I sincerely believe that art can be used as a political tool to fight against oppression, bring liberation, freedom, and social justice. However, apart from a few truly relevant works and initiatives, I find the current art scene fundamentally boring, self-sufficient and exclusionary, and it's not at all surprising that only such a few people are interested in it. Contemporary art whose works can only be received by the viewer through mediation, for example through descriptive texts, guided tours or art education sessions, is not for the general public, but for a privileged segment of society. What is missing is a radical reform of contemporary art, a more sincere, more generous, more accessible and more interesting contemporary art that is open to a wider public, rather than initiatives that seek to promote it and make it more widely accessible. My conviction is that this reform can only happen through the reinvention of art education. The “School of Disobedience” is an attempt to do this.
In my “School of Disobedience” I encourage participants to stop wanting to prove themselves, stop wanting to be validated! Just dare to be themselves: defy self-doubt, fearlessly follow their own path and be confidently themselves!”
(Anna Ádám)
In my “School of Disobedience” I encourage participants to stop wanting to prove themselves, stop wanting to be validated! Just dare to be themselves: defy self-doubt, fearlessly follow their own path and be confidently themselves!”
(Anna Ádám)
about
Anna Ádám is a Hungarian performance maker and visual artist. Her work blurs the boundaries between choreography, image and object, with the moving body together with its immaterial aspects - such as perception, empathy, emotions, intuitions - as central elements of expression. Community building and collaboration are part of her main artistic medium: she creates non-judgmental and non-hierarchical political soft-spaces to defy norms, undermine tropes, and express criticism of structural and ideological concerns.
Mixing creation, research, education and activism, she dreamed and created the "School of Disobedience”, a politically engaged sustainable community art project at the intersection of social choreography, queer theory and feminist methods. The “School of Disobedience” wants to be a new form of political resistance, an anti-fast art, an ode for slowness, cooperation and mutualisation, a passionate, simple and generous platform for invisible actions and small changes.
Mixing creation, research, education and activism, she dreamed and created the "School of Disobedience”, a politically engaged sustainable community art project at the intersection of social choreography, queer theory and feminist methods. The “School of Disobedience” wants to be a new form of political resistance, an anti-fast art, an ode for slowness, cooperation and mutualisation, a passionate, simple and generous platform for invisible actions and small changes.